Help: non-bootable floppy with mkboot
Hello,
It seems that "mkboot" no longer creates a bootable floppy due to the
initrd image missing. However, trying to create a floppy with "mkrescue"
fails miserably since only the initrd image is greater than 3 MB in
size.
Any ideas to create a (or more than one if needed) backup floppy? A
nice feature is of the boot floppy would be a stand-alone root file
system, in case the boot disk is corrupt! What to do otherwise, use a
CD to start the rescue kernel or?
Log messages below: (kernel-2.4.18-686)
Hard-disk boot
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RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0
RAMDISK: Loading 3160 blocks [1 disk] into ram disk... done.
Freeing initrd memory: 3160k freed
VFS: Mounted root (cramfs filesystem).
...
Floppy boot
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RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
VFS: Cannot open root device "801" or 08:01.
Please append a correct "root=" boot option.
Kernel package: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:01.
#> ls -l /floppy
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7964 Sep 16 22:45 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 134 Sep 16 22:45 lilo.conf
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Sep 16 22:45 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 5120 Sep 16 22:46 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 632393 Sep 16 22:45 vmlinuz
#> cat /floppy/lilo.conf:
lba32
boot = /dev/fd0
install = boot.b
map = map
compact
prompt
timeout = 50
read-only
image = vmlinuz
label = linux
root = /dev/sda1
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